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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Posing for Pictures (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by racheld611@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Not a Model….

Hello everyone! Sorry if this post is not allowed but I don’t know the best place to ask. I am wondering how a person would learn how to look better in pictures? I have always felt extremely awkward when someone asked to take a picture of/with me and it shows. I don’t know that I have ever had a decent picture taken of me. My smile alway looks weird and forced and I’m always the odd man out. I figured I would ask the professionals for some tips?

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[–] tampawn@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I find certain words help...it will get your eyes to shine. Pickle, Mommy, Pickle for my Mommy, Sexxay, and a little trick I use is say a word that has 's' in it and change it to 'th', so Tho Thexthy, Why Tho Therious?

Find a word that makes you smile. and say it out loud or to yourself. Repeat it.

Look straight at the camera lens nowhere else. Look into the back of that lens.

As a photographer there are plenty of photos I've taken where someone is looking away or looking different, and I know they just didn't feel good about themselves being photographed. And if I do catch them before I take the photo, I ask them to look at me and fart. Often gets a smile.

What I'm trying to say is distract yourself anyway you can, look right at the camera like a dare and say that word that makes you happy.